Friday, 27 May 2011

Quotes about Technology

An updated version of the book is newly available as part of my Almost Free Kindle titles both in the UK and in the USA.

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Alice Kahn, US author, journalist

When all else fails, read the instructions.

While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.

Lee Gomes, US journalist

Conversations are the way knowledge workers discover what they know, share it with colleagues, and in the process create new knowledge for the organisation. The panoply of modern information and communication technology – for example, computers, faxes, email – can help knowledge workers in this process. But all depends upon the quality of the conversations that such technologies support.

Alan Webber, US editor, author, presenter (b. 1948)

Increasing access to technology improves overall wealth, but also exacerbates inequality, because access benefits the information-rich the most.

John Browning, US scientist, author

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

2 comments:

Hi David, trying to contact you to ask a favour.Sorry I cant find another way to contact you. I met when you did a team development day in Elgin for my CAMHS team and I bought your book of quotes which my son Seb Welsh pinched from me and loves..'his bible.' I see he did an amzon review using my husband Berny's amazon account and gave you 5*!He has organized and saved for a trip to Chile himself doing a paper round and waitering where he will be teaching English at the end of June. ( quite something as still 17)I wondered if I could buy a written copy of a book from you e.g. your warm up exercises which he could use with students or another book if you think more fitting and you could do a quote/ dedication for him in the front? He would be over the moon as he takes your quotes in a very genuine and thoughtful way and tries to incorporate them into his life.My e mail is bernyandcleo.welsh@btinternet.com.Many thanks Cleo Welsh ( would have been 'Hart' at work)

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In order, I am a family man, a northerner, and a writer. Scarily it is over forty years since BBC Schools Radio gave me my first commission, and I have been writing as a part-time freelance ever since, mainly plays for the Beeb, and for education publishers. I got involved also with writing questions and formats for various TV and radio quiz shows. It's only in the last few years that I have been able to write full time, and in that period have produced: a collection of short stories 'We Never Had It So Good'; a thriller novel '11:59', which reached the semi-final of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2010; an historical novel 'Mr Stephenson's Regret', an Amazon semi-finalist in 2011; a psychological mystery 'As Close As You Are To Me'; and a micro-fiction collection 'HE and SHE: 1000 stories in 1000 tweets'. I also do readings and workshops.